(v. t.) To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
(v. t.) To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02).
(2) On reversed sequences they vacillated between reproducing the events as modeled and "correcting" them to canonical order.
(3) Culture conditions may provide an environment that permits proliferating glial cells to vacillate in their selection of a specific lineage.
(4) Trump had criticised Obama for vacillation and weakness.
(5) Relations between the White House and Congress have vacillated between close coordination one moment and leaving the other in the dark the next.
(6) Traditionally, NGOs vacillate between guilt and hope in their communications.
(7) Stuck between the cultist Friends of Radio 3 and Global Radio’s sprightly three-times-the-size Classic FM, the network vacillates between populist copying and public service broadcasting stodge.
(8) When first confronted by Arab political revolutions, Britain vacillated, reluctant to abandon useful and grubby friendship with corrupt regimes.
(9) Later she acquiesced in Ronald Reagan's decision to bomb Gaddafi, and famously told George Bush senior not to go wobbly on her as he vacillated over ousting Saddam's forces, which had invaded Kuwait.
(10) Chancellor George Osborne has made it even harder for small businesses to compete against multinationals by cutting the corporate tax rate, and presided over a collapse in business investment, particularly in the hugely promising 'green sector', which has suffered hugely from the government's inept vacillating on energy policy.
(11) He isn't, as Miliband is accused of being, weak, vacillating, unadventurous and academic.
(12) Much of his work in the last half of his life, and much of his continuing happiness, was inspired by Penny the second, whose enormous strengths of decency and determination creatively challenged his own vacillation and reluctance to make moral judgments.
(13) As one works through the stressful event, the victim vacillates between intrusion and avoidance, with the magnitude of those oscillations being much stronger at first.
(14) Major procedures included object permanence, vacillation, memory for locations and pictures, and reaction to unfamiliar adults and to separation.
(15) In Study 2, conducted four-months after Study 1, stable pairs (20 maintained mutual, MM) and vacillating ones (six growing mutual, GM; 11 decayed mutual, DM) were selected.
(16) Mitt Romney has expressed qualified concern about climate change over the years, and then vacillated about how much of it is human-caused and whether we should try to do anything about it.
(17) In the space of just a few weeks Moscow has been making the weather on the crisis – by seizing the initiative where the US and others have vacillated and failed.
(18) The cast of The Five vacillated between feigned solemnity and jocular NFL pregame oafishness.
(19) Most patients showed little denial throughout the period of observation, but more vulnerable patients tended to vacillate between denial and acceptance.
(20) Gerwig played the vacillating temptress in Hannah Takes the Stairs , the long-distance lover in Nights and Weekends , a jittery scream queen in the Duplass brothers’ Baghead .
Volatile
Definition:
(a.) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
(a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation.
(a.) Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.
(n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game.
Example Sentences:
(1) No correlation between volatile make up and geography was found, but the profiling procedures are shown to be of use in the forensic problem of relating samples to a common source.
(2) Glucose, osmotic pressure, packed cell volume, PFC by combustion and volatilization were also measured in blood samples.
(3) Less volatile amino acids such as aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methionine, glutamic acid, tyrosine, arginine, and tryptophan can be resolved at a 100 ft x 0.02 in column.
(4) These results indicate that all three volatile anesthetics have direct effects on cardiac calcium channels, and that the magnitude of the effects depends on their anesthetic potencies.
(5) Business picked up in the fourth quarter of 2013 but the consumer goods giant said those markets had continued to slow and it expected "ongoing volatility in the external environment".
(6) George Osborne became the first British minister to visit the volatile Chinese region of Xinjiang on Wednesday amid reports that 40 people had been injured or killed in the latest episode of deadly violence to hit the country’s far west.
(7) A total of 194 beers (148 US and 46 Canadian) were analysed for volatile N-nitrosamines.
(8) Rumen pH decrease to below 5.0 in S2-, lasalocid-, and monensin-treated cattle was not due to lactic acid, but to increased production of volatile fatty acids.
(9) The microflora in strained rumen fluid did not methylate or volatilize 203Hg2+ at detectable rates.
(10) Protein-bound acyl groups were labilized by performic acid treatment indicating their attachment to protein at thiol residues; however, the product released was volatile, which is not characteristic of malonic acid.
(11) In an experiment with wethers we investigated the effect of complete pelleted feed ration on the concentration of volatile fatty acids in the rumen and intestinal tract.
(12) This was possible because the Ara test, for volatile compounds (such as vinyl bromide), did not require the use of special vaporization techniques, which are difficult to evaluate quantitatively for mutagenic activity.
(13) Furthermore, volatile sulfide and 2-ketobutyrate productions from methionine in a saliva putrefaction system were completely inhibited by the two-phase mouthwash; and consumption of methionine was decreased by 65 percent.
(14) Uncertainty over ‘Brexit’, weak overseas growth and financial market volatility are all creating an unsettling business environment and point to downside risks to the economy in 2016.” The official figures follow mixed reports on the economy in recent weeks.
(15) The volatilization of DBCP from soils, as affected by the soil characteristics and application techniques, was studied in a laboratory experiment.
(16) Further studies are needed to determine the identity and toxicological properties of the non-volatile N-nitroso compounds.
(17) The longer the international standoff over Iran’s suspect nuclear programme continues, the more dangerous and volatile the situation becomes.
(18) The N supplements had no significant effects on rumen pH, concentrations of volatile fatty acids, their molar proportions or the disappearance of DM or N from porous synthetic-fibre bags.
(19) Effects of noxious electrical tooth stimulations and intraarterial administration of bradykinin or inhalation of volatile anesthetics on substance P content in the diencephalon-mesencephalon, pons-medulla and the spinal cord were examined in the rat.
(20) The efficiency of the volatilization of heroin using this procedure was studied under laboratory conditions using thin layer chromatography, gas chromatography and high pressure liquid chromatography.